Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories

Learn how to plan an agile project with user and technical stories.

Introduction

• Plan with user stories
• What you should know

1. Understanding the Benefits of an Agile Project

• Develop a product backlog
• Follow a user story
• Workflow of an iteration

2. Agile Requirements

• Write user stories
• Identify user stories
• Write technical stories

3. Ready to Implement

• Ready to implement
• Identified state
• Sized state
• Relative sizing techniques
• Team estimation
• Size with points vs. estimate with hours
• Understand velocity
• Prioritized state
• Input to backlog prioritization and planning
• Ready to implement state
• Acceptance criteria
• Story quality and the definition of ready

4. Iteration Planning

• Implement a story
• Release vs. iteration planning
• The iteration planning event and definition of done
• Iteration planning
• Identifying tasks
• Using a kanban board
• Flow through the kanban board
• Kanban boards integration at the planning level

Conclusion

• Where to continue your agile journey